Sites for downloading high quality music files (lemmy.razbot.xyz)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by MrRazamataz@lemmy.razbot.xyz to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I am making a script that can download high quality music files, currently from free-mp3-download.net and slavart.gamesdrive.net. Are there any others? I could look into torrenting things automatically and maybe looking into Lidarr? Not 100% on how that works but any ideas on what else I could add or links to other places I can download high quality music files lmk.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I've found Jackett that could be promising, but still open to other ideas/sites.
EDIT: Thank you all for your responses.

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[-] gim@lemm.ee 26 points 11 months ago

Use soulseek https://www.soulseekqt.net

[-] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

rutracker.org, rutracker.ru

[-] junusdenised420@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 11 months ago

Try soulseek, has been a while since i used it but you can find almost anything there from my experience and in good quality too

[-] AbeFroman@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

I have downloaded 4TB of flac from Deezer using DeeMix downloader. U now need a premium account for flac and DeeMix is no longer supported but it still works.

[-] quirzle@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

I use a similar approach with Tidal and Tidal-Media-Downloader. I use a paid Tidal account to integrate into my Plex library, then scripted downloads to ensure that stuff stays in my Plex library.

[-] Nyarlathotep@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

What kind of files can you get, and do they come tagged well?

[-] quirzle@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

I get .flac files that are generally tagged with everything except genre. Bandcamp (where I legally obtain files when I can) doesn't tag genre either, so it's at least consistent across my library.

[-] Nyarlathotep@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

Good to know, thank you!

(Yeah, weird that Bandcamp has zero genre tags, ever!)

[-] Nyarlathotep@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

Deemix is so good. It's a great benefit to having a legit sub.

[-] TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 1 points 10 months ago

ARLs for FLACs are easily available. So Deemix still works smoothly.

The only issue I have found is that it often doesn't download LRC files.

[-] AceSLS@ani.social 5 points 11 months ago

I'm getting all my music for free from Youtube Music with yt-dlp

[-] Mike90210@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 11 months ago

Quality of YouTube downloads ain't anywhere near the 'high quality' OP is after.

[-] Willer@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Propably yes, but not because of the codec google uses.

[-] bofejo5773@monyet.cc 5 points 11 months ago

Based retard

[-] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Best you get from YouTube is 128kbps (ish, it's VBR) without paying or 256kbps with Premium. I would consider high quality to start at 320kbps minimum.

[-] AceSLS@ani.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's not true, youtube uses opus with vbr up to 160kpbs without premium. Premium gets 256kbps aac. 320kbps with opus is overkill

Imo Yt Music has way better quality than atleast Spotify and it has almost everything you'd ever need

[-] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You are correct that it's 160kbps, I spoke a bit too vaguely as most of them are listed between ~95-130 by my music software instead of the peak of 160. I still maintain that YT Premium are "good enough" and not "high quality", but that's a highly subjective statement. The point remains though that you cannot get that 256kbps without paying.